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One thing i've always thought. So many people say he's got a terrible voice. Which he has, sort of. But when he sings 'Blowin' In The Wind' and many others he sings them better than anyone else.
Strange but true.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 09:53 - May 24 with 2323 views
Ive been singing that since 1962. Vocaliing is not always about timbre nor tone nor technical proficiency.Dylan break all the rules.Same with Neil Young .These are not trained singers in any way .
My mother used to hammer me for breathing within a note.
We used to listen to Dylan as teenagers in a front room in Killay wondering what Bob was talking about.
Sub Blues hit me for 6. I still can't undertand how anyone could have come up with this.
Being a vocalist himself ,our Guvna would tell you quality of voice isn't important.
It ceases to amaze me that despite repeated warnings over abusive language or words disguised to have the same effect. The same usual suspects are still getting away with it without anything being done.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 17:40 - May 24 with 2212 views
Simple really. We've all reeled it in due to Keith's requests but obviously it's ok to call to someone a 'kent' even though we know what it really means. But heh! no problem to me, i'm no snowflake, at least we all know that it's ok to call someone a 'kent'! Green light!
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 22:03 - May 24 with 2120 views
Pretty gash according to everyone I know who has seen him live.
Like Leonard Cohen. One of those people better at writing songs for other people than performing them himself.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 22:05 - May 24 with 2117 views
I appreciate his lyricism but I genuinely can't stand to listen to him. Ropey harmonica player, intolerable voice and the usual folk chord progressions.
I have tinnitus and I consider it slightly more bearable than listening to the seemingly interminable verses of Mr Tambourine Man.
Same applies for Neil Young's voice. There's a limit, and his cawing, gutless voice is too much to handle. Sorry to be negative but I've participated ain't I?
Give me John Martyn's velvet-smooth, insouciant vocals coupled with his quality guitar work any day. Now there's a player and a singer.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 22:37 - May 24 with 2077 views
There’s just no need to swear irrespective of the context. If anything is going to close down this website it’s the persistent profanity dressed up in other words.
Remember, kids read this, and google searches link our attempts to do good with abuse. THINK PLEASE.
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A great believer in taking anything you like to wherever you want to.
Ah! right, I’m with you now. I was left scratching my head for a while, I thought you’d taken spectacular umbrage at me calling Bob a Woody Guthrie impersonator.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 07:21 - May 25 with 1981 views
Billy Bragg is the pound shop Guthrie. Dylan a great writer but shot as a performer by the mid 70s. Remember my mother buying ‘Live at Budokan’ . Don’t think it ever made it past side 1. That’s not to decry the change he drove and a folk and electric performer or great records like Highway 61 …
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 08:27 - May 25 with 1968 views
The usual replies.Bad singer etc,Neil Young too. Music is subjective .It's why some liked Queen whilst others saw them as pretentious middle class people. Bowie?,idolised by many but left others cold.
My point was and is the song they have written,performed countless times;there's a reason for that.People can't see it then that is for them.
Ive seen great praise over the years for the likes of Iron Maiden,Motorhead -to me horrendous .
As for Kent,nobody likes them posh people gary,me ol former mate.
I like Neil Young. Went to see him in Liverpool Arena a few years back with Crazy Horse. People were moaning. There were expecting ‘Harvest’ and got the full rock treatment. I though it was great myself. Not so keen on Dylan as a performer but respect his work and unsurpassed as a writer.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 09:04 - May 25 with 1944 views
When Ian Macnabb opened for him,he was ok back stage .Spiky,tricky and awkward .
One take he told us was when he was playing "Rocking in the Free World" at a huge gig when he was playing very loud but in a different key to Crazy House. He forgot he changed the key but carried on.
I feel the majority on here have no idea as to the impact of
When Ian Macnabb opened for him,he was ok back stage .Spiky,tricky and awkward .
One take he told us was when he was playing "Rocking in the Free World" at a huge gig when he was playing very loud but in a different key to Crazy House. He forgot he changed the key but carried on.
I feel the majority on here have no idea as to the impact of Dylan and Young.The fact they mention voices is key.Ever heard a worse voice than Tom Waits? Me neither.
Love and Mercy was recorded when he voice was "shot" but if one listens to it,one's life passes before the eyes.
Johnny Cash last album is the most affecting you'd ever hear especially "Hurt" ,recorded in pain .
Quality of voice does not necessarily make a great artist. That needs more.
My ol mum was a classically trained mezzo and could be heard above a congregation at Church/Chapels easily but he has no "personality" as such when interpreting songs.
Finally ,not sure the likes of Ed Sheeran ,Rag n Bone man, and their like will leave the same legacy .
I might start a thread on singer songwriters but very busy here
Tom Waits' voice on The Old Grey Whistle Test, when he sang Waltzing Matilda, is exceptional. He sounds like an alcohol-soaked Disney villain and it's wonderful.
The issue is how much emphasis one puts on music as a carrier for a message, regardless of innate talent. In my opinion, having an eloquent vocabulary is not enough to ignore other shortcomings. Dylan is not nice to listen to, nor is Young. Most on here do appreciate Dylan's pen; the fact he won the Nobel Literature Prize says all about his talents and nothing about his actual music. Yes music can be anything, and I listen to Chopin or Erik Satie one day, and doom metal the next. The common theme is that despite these disparate genres, and all in between, they actually sound good.
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Bob Dylan 80 soon on 10:40 - May 25 with 1921 views
Absolutely loved Roussos on Aphrodite's Child's 666 album. There's something eerie and beguiling about his voice; such a distinctive, tight vibrato. His flits and slides are also so hard to replicate.
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